Benched Welker for being funny. I’m rooting for the Jets, and I think that’s crap.
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Mr Stagger Lee
Oops Wes Weilker learned the hard way about disobeying Belichek. I want the Pats to win so I can listen to Mike Greenberg cry like a little girl on the Mike and Mike show.
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MizB
Ha-It’s PATS John, PATSPATSPATSPATSPATS!
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Desert Rat
Can’t root for the Jets. Not this team. Not only do they have the New York thing going against them, but Rex Ryan is a punk, and an overrated one, at that.
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WaterGirl
So the Bears won? Anybody know when we will know whether the next Bears game will be played in Chicago?
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me
@WaterGirl: You mean the NFC Championship? Yes. BTW, Bears suck.
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vtr
Yeah, I used to hate the Stillers when I was living in N. E. Ohio, and all my friends were Browns fans. It wasn’t until after the great 70s teams were gone that I fully appreciated how great Harris, Blier, Stalworth, Bradshaw et al were. To the point of revering them. So Go Pats.
Yeah slap on the wrist It’s not looking like Belachick nailed his feet to the sideline. Go JETS!
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robertdsc-PowerBook
@WaterGirl:
They will play the Packers next week in Chicago.
Go Pats!
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Mr Stagger Lee
@Desert Rat: ESPN Radio and TV has been unlistenable and unwatchable this week. Jesus guys you do know there were 3 other playoff games? But you wouldn’t know if you watched ESPN. I forget I have the NFL Network, next time I will learn.
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morzer
I hear if you grill a Patriot properly, it tastes exactly like Seachicken…
Few things are more pathetic than a bitter sports fan.
GO PATRIOTS!
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me
@BGinCHI: Hating on the Bears is the Wisconsin state pastime. (Playful hating of course, the Bears are actually pretty decent, not decent enough IMO though)
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Sputnik
Whatever. You’re just jealous. Go Pats!
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Thoroughly Pizzled
Belichick looks like Grima Wormtongue in that hood.
I will say you all got to me turn on the TV and see who “Voldemort” was. I’ve been following the NFL not at all and couldn’t figure out who got that moniker.
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morzer
And Brady goes down again when someone breaths near him….
I find it hard to believe I’m rooting for a New York team in any sport. Must be a lingering attachment to the uniforms from watching Namath beat the Colts back in ’69.
At any rate, no matter who wins between Chicago and Green Bay, I like both of ’em better than either of these guys.
@stuckinred: Why would you be? Sports are way more interesting than any bridal anything. Oh, and our overlord (Cole) did not like the avatars, so they got axed.
@tim serbo: That’s a very very very low bar you are setting there, sir.
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Davis X. Machina
You may Voldemort us to your hearts’ content.
Those of us who suffered through the decades of unremitting Patriots suckage, back to the days of Babe Parilli, Mike Tailiafero, and Joe Kapp, on the frozen seats of Nickerson Field, or Harvard Stadium, or Alumni Stadium, or Schaefer Stadium, ending with the 1-15 1990 season, and Victor Kiam, just don’t care.
What goes around, comes around. It came around. Deal with it.
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stuckinred
@asiangrrlMN: Cuz the princess has her wedding ring pillows in it. I helped her set up (and pulled tech support for a young lady who had not a clue what a multimedia wonderland her mac was) and her buddies are helping her tear down.
Surely Belichick is Ferengi? His behavior with Randy Moss certainly went through the Five Stages of Acquisition: infatuation, justification, appropriation, obsession, and resale.
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stuckinred
@Comrade PhysioProf: For violating Bill’s policy so, yea. It was bullshit, he just didn’t “start”!
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tim serbo
@asiangrrlMN: you go to the playoffs with the announcers you have…
@Davis X. Machina: and Fenway. i saw them play the chiefs there in ’68, a year after i’d moved with my family from k.c. to boston. chiefs won, and i ran around on the field with my friends afterwards. god, i am so fucking old.
@tim serbo: My question is, does anyone like any of the current crop of announcers? Is there someone hyperventilating over the chance to hear Greg Gumbel and Dan D. go on and on and on? I don’t think so. And, why do they have to talk all the fucking time? Kids, lawn, off.
ETA: Reince Priebus without the vowels = RNC PR BS. I am repeating this (I stole it) until it becomes a meme.
When I was in High School, technology track students weren’t encouraged to take typing (except to scam on the secretarial track gals). Hunt and, um, pecker here.
I thought all the foot allusions in Welker’s comment were hilarious! It was very subtle, and only if you knew the backstory of the supposed Ryan foot “enthusiasm” would you notice anything amiss.
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stuckinred
The NFL game with no announcers.
@asiangrrlMN: We are just moments away from the kickoff of today’s Jets-Dolphins game and a telecast that figures to be different. The fact that we try something different and dare to has been greeted with almost every kind of reaction, from good-natured humor to applause to some surprising anger.” — Bryant Gumbel’s first on-camera words on Dec. 20, 1980
You may Voldemort us to your hearts’ content. Those of us who suffered through the decades of unremitting Patriots suckage, back to the days of Babe Parilli, Mike Tailiafero, and Joe Kapp, on the frozen seats of Nickerson Field, or Harvard Stadium, or Alumni Stadium, or Schaefer Stadium, ending with the 1-15 1990 season, and Victor Kiam, just don’t care.What goes around, comes around. It came around. Deal with it
THIS. VERY WELL SAID from another long time Patriots fan.
@BGinCHI: I hear ya. Seriously. I would pay extra monies for a button that mutes the announcers while keeping the am b i ent sounds (don’t know if spam filter is still the same or not).
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Davis X. Machina
@tim serbo: Hell, I saw a soccer game at Fenway the year before, and ran around on the field afterward.
We’re both so damn old….
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stuckinred
They have this amazing invention on most TV called the MUTE button.
@morzer: That makes me feel better. Thank you. :-)
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Mr Stagger Lee
@asiangrrlMN: Anything wrong with Al Michels and Chris Collinsworth? I like them the best.
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stuckinred
You couldn’t hear the announcers with those goddamn vuvuzeaula’s
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tim serbo
@asiangrrlMN: none that i can think of, no. i’m trying to think of announcers i’d like to hear, and all i can think of are baseball voices–ned martin, ernie harwell, vin scully. i don’t know, maybe Jon Miller and an interesting ex-player, like that guy who occasionally posts in deadspin, blocking on the name, will look it up later
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BGinCHI
@asiangrrlMN: Universal sports shows cyclocross races, mostly later at night, with no announcers and with microphones all over the course. You can hear fans, racers, and lots of cowbells.
It’s great.
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Bruuuuce
This weekend is Arisia, a sf convention in Boston. A FB friend who’s up there just posted some photos of folks in NE jerseys and Star Wars Clone Trooper helmets. Appropriate, says this NY (but mostly Giants) fan.
was at this game, it was a blow out by half time as i recall, drunk fans, fights, i get hit in the head with someones shoe and had beer spilled down my back. another fan died of a heart attack, someone fell off the stands and a cop has his gun pulled out of his holster during a brawl in the end zone seats…there were no monday night games for years as a result of the mayhem that night!
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tim serbo
@BGinCHI: cyclocross is really well-suited for tv. fun live, too.
@morzer: Two-timer! ::slaps you in the face with yet another satin glove::
@Mr Stagger Lee: I find them incredibly bland. Plus, I hate sports cliches, but I know I’m spitting in the wind there. They are probably the least obtrusive, but I just don’t want ANYONE talking all the time.
I actually don’t mind the second team at FOX (the ones who did today’s game) ‘coz they are fairly low-key (except for Goose. He can STFU).
And, whatdya know? We got a game.
ETA: Everybody calling him/herself old, what exactly is old to you?
No, my temporary enthusiasm is strictly predicated on the Jets not being able to win it all with Sanchez, so it’s really a matter of two enemies destroying each other.
Also too, that velvet glove and you in a dominatrix pose.. well, what else should I live for in the Boston tundra?
Yeah. ESPN makes me almost want to fall back to my default position in any New York vs. Boston, New York vs. Chicago, or New York vs. Los Angeles matchup…cheering for injuries, and cheering for Pittsburgh vs. either one of them.
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Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: Yesh. And the Jets, they do be winning. So far. More important: the Pats are looking strangely vulnerable. And Brady right now is off.
Is it me, or does Brady in that strange headgear look like John Cleese in the Holy Grail?
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tim serbo
@asiangrrlMN: old is watching a baseball or football game and remembering that you saw some player’s father play when he was a rookie. that’s happened a couple of times.
@J.: Are you actually wearing that thong? I have a Tunchie one!
@morzer: Yes, but you still did the blushing thing. Oh, shit. I said scrapping instead of scraping. It’s gonna bug me.
@tim serbo: But I thought Brady NEVER got rattled! Old: But Jordan’s son is now playing. Does that make me old?
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Yutsano
@morzer: That could get you lynched in some states. Just sayin’.
@asiangrrlMN: I wonder if he just chose a really bad day to be off. Which is weird for him because usually he’s a laser. And the Jets are not exactly an unknown to him. Oddsfish.
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frosty
@asiangrrlMN: Here’s a definition: Old is if you get laid off tomorrow, you will never have a job again.
An absence of foot-scraping? Or comparing Cleese to Goldilocks?
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tim serbo
@asiangrrlMN: what you’re feeling is the first chill breath of middle age on your back. you’re not old…yet.
brady CAN be rattled, as the giants proved in the super bowl. harass him up the middle often enough and he’ll make a panicky decision. i think he’s the best quarterback since montana, but he has weaknesses in his game.
@frosty: thanks. now i know i won’t sleep tonight. brrrr…
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Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: Maybe Gisele said no to him. Or he got caught with another woman and still has that on the brain. It would be irresponsible not to speculate…
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frosty
@asiangrrlMN: Yeah, it’s a simple definition. Applies to my wife and at least two co-workers.
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morzer
Tonight really does seem to be a Human BradyTM edition.
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stuckinred
@tim serbo: You got that right. Marion Barber comes to mind.
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morzer
LT really does seem a bit radged off tonight, judging by his determination to hammer the Patsies all on his lonesome.
@Yutsano: I was actually thinking something along that lines–something personal.
frosty, Oh, I’m sorry about your wife. That’s rough, man.
ETA: TOUCHDOWN! This is a GAME.
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stuckinred
@Yutsano: It is the nature of this game. “It’s a thin line”. That being said you cannot have a big enough lead against him.
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stuckinred
Old is when you give in to it. Not once fucking day sooner.
When you start looking back at your life and figuring out what your parents were doing at this or that age. When you wonder if the dogs you have now will be your last. It can creep in but you have to fight it.
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morzer
Hot damn, I didn’t think Braylon Edwards had it in him.
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Mark S.
Old is trying to fake a punt from your own 40 and going into the locker room down by 11.
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tim serbo
@asiangrrlMN: i am trying to remember i’m happy to be alive to watch the pats ruin my day.
oh, no. TD, j-e-t-s.
i’m going to go pet my bunny. don’t read anything into that.
@stuckinred: And apparently the Jets are taking your advice to heart. This seems rather curious. I wonder if the bye threw the Pats off their rhythm or something.
@asiangrrlMN: No, not wearing my lucky Jets thong right now. Didn’t want to jinx them. But if my Jets win I’ll be wearing it to the gym tomorrow! (You have a Tunch thong? Really? Didn’t know there was such a thing. Isn’t that redundant? ;-)
Also at the risk of further jinxing things, GO JETS! (Can we end the game now, while the Jets are winning? :-)
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KG
Are we really looking at the potential for two six seeds playing in the Super Bowl… Packers vs Jets, country mouse vs city mouse
@asiangrrlMN: You just made me think of Scott Fujita, who also has an interesting background like that. And he’s a DFH. And not bad to look at either.
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Cat Lady
I hate the new formatting and I hate this game. Belichick better put all of their nuts in a vise at halftime, or Rexy won’t shut up until 2020 about this game.
@morzer: Oh, bay-beeeee! You wield the glove so authoritatively.
@J.: Ha! Here is the Tunch thong. I have yet to wear it for realz, though (I prefer going commando). I hear you about not wanting to jinx your team, though.
@stuckinred: I didn’t know about him. And, of course, how could I forget Hines Ward. Yum yum.
@Svensker: Good to see you, girl! This is rather enjoyable, isn’t it?
@morzer: Oh, sorry. OK. I always wear flannel unders and shapeless sweats. That help?
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SFAW
jk-
I would like to apologize for my being a dickhead last week. I was going for the cheap laugh – sometimes it’s OK, but it definitely was NOT last week. So, I am sorry for my shitty-ass comment. Feel free to tell me to go fuck myself, I would deserve it.
Sorry for not doing this sooner, but I figured it was better left for a football thread.
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Yutsano
@stuckinred: Thanks for that site. Really interesting to see a few AA/Korean mixes in there.
@asiangrrlMN: Fujita is not only adorable, he lets his skills speak on the field and his mind speak off it. It’s almost enough to make me feel bad for beating the Saints. Almost. :)
@Yutsano: Yeah. He’s a good man, so it seems. I like how in the story I read, they strove for false equivalence. “He’s not a complete do-gooder. He got a fine for hitting a guy low!” Snort.
@morzer: Bwaahahahhaha! So funny. P.S. I was kidding with the flannel unders.
Getting more things Wong will not be in their Favre….
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stuckinred
Hey Wang!
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BuffBillsFan
I am torn on this one.
On one hand, I have a coworker who is a N-Y-E-T-S fan, and another who is a Steelers fan. If the NYETS win, the trash talk (friendly, but harsh) will be a blast for the next week.
On the other hand, listening to the Steelers fan whine about how the Pats can only win because they cheat (at least they cheat better than the other teams) would be tedious by Wednesday (and we have Monday off).
“This just in from Minneapolis. Brett Favre has been caught texting pictures of his Asian teammate to a woman…..no, wait…..I’m getting a correction. More after these messages.”
@arguingwithsignposts: Meh. Not quite ready to compare them to the Evil Empire just yet. But the Pats look mighty vulnerable today. That could be huge down the road.
Or lack of faith in your kicker on Bellechik’s part.
I don’t know who’s kicking for them after AV left, but … on 4th and fucking 13? I know he’s supposed to be a coaching genius, but that’s kinda crazy.
Edit: Unless the wind is blowing or your kicker blows, but isn’t he the GM, too?
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Yutsano
And the Jets choose to put the game on their defense. That’s a lot of faith, especially since Brady and Bellechik both have Satan-bound contracts.
@The Dangerman: Sometimes the easiest explanation is hubris. Either on Bellechik or Brady, either way the result is the same.
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burnspbesq
Not a good time to go three-and-out.
All right, Weatherford, earn your damn money.
ETA: that wasn’t quite what I had in mind.
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stuckinred
@The Dangerman: FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — The New England Patriots placed kicker Stephen Gostkowski on injured reserve with a thigh injury on Wednesday morning, ending his season. Kicking duties will now fall to newly signed Shayne Graham.
GOSTOWSKI (sp) was the kicker and an all pro with great leg strength however he is IR’d and they are making do with shayne ex-bengal who is not showing good depth on his kickoffs.
@tim serbo: You know what? All last week, all I thought was “flaming wreckage of Jets.” Could not imagine that the Jets could really come in and take it away.
Well, they didn’t, the Great Hairy One and his band of play-callers sort of like just, oh, i dunno, like GAVE it away instead. Did not see that one coming, and now the AFC championship is interesting again.
Sleeping on the pigskin gets you a flag in the NFL.
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mr. whipple
This game sucks stinky toes.
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tim serbo
oh, poo. this monday in my midtown manhattan office building is going to be even worse than usual.
congratulations, jets and their fans, he said through gritted teeth. you won fair and square.
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morzer
Patsies are dead in the water here. Some strange coaching in the 4th quarter, for sure.
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burnspbesq
The best sound in sports: a surly home crowd filing out after an unexpected loss.
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J. Michael Neal
Would Belichick have had one of his players assassinated for picking up the excessive celebration penalty after the game was effectively over? Or just kneecapped?
Holy crap. WTF? Wow. Just…wow. Game over? Game almost over.
So PERHAPS Brady is not the MVP of the NFL? It would be irresponsible not to speculate.
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2liberal
a sad end to strong but flawed Patriots season. I can’t decide who i hate more, the Jets or the Steelers. and they both go on. The patriots have some good draft picks coming up – NEXT YEAR FOR SURE !!
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RinaX
Manning and Brady one and done in the playoffs. I never imagined such a delightful scenario could come to pass!
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Mr Stagger Lee
Oh god, another week of Mike and Mike bob-knobing the Jets. (their opponent will be the Steelers, but will you know that from Greenberg, and will at least give them some time to talk about it?) If you listen to ESPN or watch it, The NFC Championship is the battle in the Norris division rivals the Bears and the Packers.(just in case they don’t talk about it)
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tim serbo
@BruceFromOhio: word. serious choke job, from belichick to brady on down. they got outcoached and outplayed.
/pensively removes troy brown jersey, picks up guitar and returns to the unfinished arrangement of “ship of fools,” which seems a good song to play these days./
Except that would be this year’s NFC West: every team finished under .500.
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cbear
Soooo, coaching “genuis” Bill Belichek decides, down by 10 points, it’s a good idea to take 7+ minutes off the clock in a leisurely 4th quarter drive.
Stupid mofo.
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Nicole
What’s up with the gymnastics, 17?
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burnspbesq
9.5 to Braylon Edwards for the back layout. Would have been 9.7 if he had stuck the landing.
it’s been a little slice of heaven, watching the game with you all. time for a heart-healthy dinner of crow and worms, followed by an early bed, so i’ll have more time to weep piteously into my pillow. good night, sleep tight, don’t let the bedbugs bite.
@tim serbo: Oh, I feel bad for you (even though I was rooting for the Jets). Good night!
@morzer: Admit it. You like getting dirty. Steelers/Packers would be wonderful.
@JCT: Now you can eat it in celebration instead! After you post pics, of course.
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JCT
YES — here I spent all afternoon making my son’s (the rabid Jets fan) favorite dinner and dessert to try to make him feel better after the predicted Jets shellacking.
So far my devilish strategy is working out perfectly. The Patsies fall, and now the cudlip Jets can be put to the blade. They have served their purpose.
where were you after the Jets lost the previous game?
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tim serbo
@burnspbesq: of course. purely for the resveratrol content, naturally.
congratulations. (butthole)
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Cacti
My favorite game of the playoffs. Gillette playoff mystique dead and buried, Brady outperformed by Sanchez, Bill “super double geniusburger” Belichick’s staff out-schemed by Rex Ryan’s, and…mouthy Pats fans who’d already crowned themselves champions left to sputter.
Gotta love Deion Branch talking shit to the Jets sideline when his team’s down 10 in the 4th quarter.
Mostly Asiangrrl’s new lucky thong being displayed. Other than that, nothing much. Didn’t even watch a down myself.
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tim serbo
@asiangrrlMN: thanks. i’ll really feel sad when there’s something to really feel sad about. the apartment is warm, the bunny, after two and a half years, has finally learned to hop up on my lap for pets, and i’m here to enjoy it all. pats win would have been nice, but neither necessary nor sufficient. grosses bises a tout le monde!
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SFAW
burnspbesq & Svensker –
Congrats to the two other Jets fans on the FSM-forsaken blog.
I didn’t think they’d win, I’m ashamed to say. But this was pretty nice.
I believe I have been consistent all along in saying that 45-3 was an outlier. Stuff happens. New England is a very good team. New York is a very good team.
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morzer
Hey hey DougJ
How many yards did ya gain today?
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SFAW
asiangrrlMN –
What’s up with the thong? I thought that was J’s. You got one too?
Han hau!
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burnspbesq
Sanchez giving all the credit to his receivers.
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Jenny
The NFC looks weak, so the AFC championship game will be the real Super Bowl.
As a longtime Patriots fan, let me say “Congratulations Jets.” I want you to know that when the Jets play the Packers in the SuperBowl, I’ll rooting for a small meteorite.
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Joe Bauers
Is there anything better in life than seeing the Pats lose their first playoff game in a year when they thought they were going to win it all? Verily I say unto thee, there is not.
Unless it would be for Pittsburgh to also lose the following week. I don’t think I could handle that much happiness.
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john
As a longtime Steeler fan, I should have been rooting for the Jets. But I wasn’t because they are even more evil than the Pats, despite having won nothing yet. I hope the nation can tone down the hateful rhetoric and unite behind the black and gold next weekend.
Pats despising significant other peeked over my shoulder, saw this post title, laughed real loud.
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SFAW
Don’t worry, you can keep the meteorite, seeing as it will be Steelers and Bears.
What, is there going to be a game to determine third place?
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Eric Shaw
@SFAW: That’ll be played on the golf course between the packers and the jets.
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SFAW
That’ll be played on the golf course between the packers and the jets.
Keep telling yourself that. It worked so well for the Pats’ fans, too.
On the plus side, Troy Oompa-Loompa will have more time for shampoo commercials.
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IsItMe?
John, I love your title for this post. I had to go an event, and was elated to find out the Jets took down the Voldemorts. I was always just indifferent toward the Voldemorts until it was revealed a few years back that they’d blatantly cheated via videotapping opponents for their call signals. This loss couldn’t happen to a “better” team ;-). Go Jets!!!
Sarah Palin is a true Patriot. She’s known for her weak, offensive lines.
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Chinn Romney
The future looks very bright for the NE Patriots. Until then I guess I have to root for Pittsburgh. I hope the Jets help them along, because the Steelers *always* require the opponent to make a bone-headed play or two along the way. And perhaps Cromartie can tell Big Ben how to seal the deal with Chicks, since Ben’s heavy handed approach is a bit lacking.
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SFAW
they’d blatantly cheated via videotapping opponents for their call signals.
Not to mention that, earlier in the season, they (apparently) pulled the same block/trip-a-defender-on-a-punt stunt that got Alosi suspended.
Alosi SHOULD have been suspended, we’ll see if anything happens to the Pats (assuming the news report I saw is true, of course).
I could not write this last night because I learned at EW’s that Sara had passed away. However all descriptions and accounts of this game fill me with complete manic glee.
(Do not turn to John’s gift-offering! I have not taken a single donkey of theirs, nor have I wronged even one of them.)
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BruceFromOhio
Already my kids love this thread.
freelancer
Benched Welker for being funny. I’m rooting for the Jets, and I think that’s crap.
Mr Stagger Lee
Oops Wes Weilker learned the hard way about disobeying Belichek. I want the Pats to win so I can listen to Mike Greenberg cry like a little girl on the Mike and Mike show.
MizB
Ha-It’s PATS John, PATSPATSPATSPATSPATS!
Desert Rat
Can’t root for the Jets. Not this team. Not only do they have the New York thing going against them, but Rex Ryan is a punk, and an overrated one, at that.
WaterGirl
So the Bears won? Anybody know when we will know whether the next Bears game will be played in Chicago?
me
@WaterGirl: You mean the NFC Championship? Yes. BTW, Bears suck.
vtr
Yeah, I used to hate the Stillers when I was living in N. E. Ohio, and all my friends were Browns fans. It wasn’t until after the great 70s teams were gone that I fully appreciated how great Harris, Blier, Stalworth, Bradshaw et al were. To the point of revering them. So Go Pats.
asiangrrlMN
@freelancer: It was meaningless. He’s in now. Whatever.
@WaterGirl: It will be in Chicago–against the Packers.
Gooooooo, Jets!
Villago Delenda Est
Shouldn’t it be Jets vs. The-Team-That-Can-Not-Be-Named?
Otherwise, we’ll be inundated with cries of “Oh Ron, stop it!” from Hermione…
FlyingToaster
John, if you think you hate them now, well, just wait about four hours…
Generally located about 24.5 miles north of Foxborough :) I may be a Chiefs fan, but this (even benching Welker) is fun. Heh.
BruceFromOhio
@WaterGirl:
… next Sunday, hosting the NFC Championship against Green Bay. Should be a good ‘un.
BGinCHI
@me: Haters gotta hate.
At least either Bears or Packers will be in the Super Bowl. Then, heartbreak.
freelancer
@asiangrrlMN:
Yeah slap on the wristIt’s not looking like Belachick nailed his feet to the sideline. Go JETS!robertdsc-PowerBook
@WaterGirl:
They will play the Packers next week in Chicago.
Go Pats!
Mr Stagger Lee
@Desert Rat: ESPN Radio and TV has been unlistenable and unwatchable this week. Jesus guys you do know there were 3 other playoff games? But you wouldn’t know if you watched ESPN. I forget I have the NFL Network, next time I will learn.
morzer
I hear if you grill a Patriot properly, it tastes exactly like Seachicken…
asiangrrlMN
Oh, and thanks, Cole for the shiny new thread. I promise to not–oh, shit! Sweet pick and runback!
Ahem. I promise to keep on topic at all times in this thread. Other threads? Not so much.
@tim serbo: Um, remember to breathe, OK? And, if you use an asterisk, you really should have it mean something!
@morzer: Man. You really are aiming to give Pats fans the vapors, aren’t you?
Damn it! No good on the FG.
stuckinred
Fake end around screen cluster fuck!
freelancer
Woohoo! Almost a pick six!
tim serbo
@asiangrrlMN: that’s belichick for you. harsh, yet cruel.
and all grumping about the dullness* of the nfc games aside, packers vs. bears outdoors in january is going to be so cool.
*dull to a neutral observer. congrats to bears and packers fans.
brady just got picked. excuse me while i assume the fetal position.
wide left!
BruceFromOhio
THIS is why I love the NFL playoffs.
ETA: Shankified! 0-0 and Team Voldemort gets it back.
morzer
Oh, poor ickle Tommy. The first pick!
blogbytom
Bad time to throw your first pick in 340 throws, Brady. Whatever. We’ll hold ’em to a field goal. (Preparing to eat crow).
stuckinred
Yea Simms, most d-linemen keep their hands in their pockets when they rush the QB.
Violet
Football? I think I’m going to go get some Mexican food and then watch the Golden Globes.
blogbytom
HA! Missed it!
PaulW
I care for neither the Jets nor the Pats.
Go Bucs!
MizB
And-wide left!
BGinCHI
Predict DougJ enters this thread if and only if the Pats get up by a safe margin.
stuckinred
@Violet: Oh noz, please stay.
Tim
Few things are more pathetic than a bitter sports fan.
GO PATRIOTS!
me
@BGinCHI: Hating on the Bears is the Wisconsin state pastime. (Playful hating of course, the Bears are actually pretty decent, not decent enough IMO though)
Sputnik
Whatever. You’re just jealous. Go Pats!
Thoroughly Pizzled
Belichick looks like Grima Wormtongue in that hood.
WaterGirl
Thanks for the answers to my Bears question!
(So glad the gravitars are gone.)
freelancer
So the defense is clicking…Offense is a little Pop-Warner at the moment.
Violet
@stuckinred:
Why?
I will say you all got to me turn on the TV and see who “Voldemort” was. I’ve been following the NFL not at all and couldn’t figure out who got that moniker.
morzer
And Brady goes down again when someone breaths near him….
asiangrrlMN
@Violet: Ha. That’s funny.
BGinCHI
@me: I’m just gonna spare everyone the “sex with farm animals” joke, but that’s only because I like you.
And I like the Packers.
So next week is officially the Midwest Super Bowl.
stuckinred
@Violet: Because we love you and everyone else.
morzer
@Thoroughly Pizzled:
More like Pal-Pat-ine.. notice the Pat right there. Coincidence? I think not!
Morbo
Yeah, pass it to Woodcock!
BGinCHI
@morzer: I’m watching the game with Brady’s wife and she won’t stop tickling me.
BruceFromOhio
Ref for this game is Bill Leavy.
tim serbo
DougJ’s little brother can run a little.
asiangrrlMN
Can we all at least agree that Nantz and Simms SUCK!?
morzer
@BGinCHI:
Well, just invoke the Tuck-in Rule….
Violet
@asiangrrlMN:
It might be funny, but it’s also true. I really didn’t know who John was so afraid of. Heh.
@stuckinred:
Even the Voldemorts?
frosty
I find it hard to believe I’m rooting for a New York team in any sport. Must be a lingering attachment to the uniforms from watching Namath beat the Colts back in ’69.
At any rate, no matter who wins between Chicago and Green Bay, I like both of ’em better than either of these guys.
Mr Stagger Lee
A good post about another massive bird die off. HEE HEEE!
The Dangerman
Can a miss/made field goal be challenged? Or is Simms just FOS again?
morzer
@frosty:
A flawless strategic appreciation. Hats off to you.
BGinCHI
@asiangrrlMN: Nantz should stick to golf, where there’s no sport to be ruined, and Phil Simms should stick to shutting the fuck up.
blogbytom
This is going to be sweet.
stuckinred
Yay, the Bridal Art Show was a success and I am not in trouble for staying home!
stuckinred
@Violet: Hell yes, “there’s only one race. . . da human race”!
BGinCHI
@stuckinred: That gets you a low score on the Man Chart for the day.
tim serbo
do not like field goals! bless his heart, crumpler must be the sickest man in america right now.
stuckinred
@BGinCHI: He’s Bush loving sack of chit. Where my red dog went?
me
@BGinCHI: Could be worse. You could say “Your state senator was nearly Reince Priebus! HAH!”
tim serbo
@asiangrrlMN: and yet they’re sweet music compared to buck and aikman.
Bruce (formerly Steve S.)
What, you can discern a moral difference here? This is the Klingons vs. the Romulans prior to the Praxis incident.
asiangrrlMN
@BGinCHI: Exactly!
@stuckinred: Why would you be? Sports are way more interesting than any bridal anything. Oh, and our overlord (Cole) did not like the avatars, so they got axed.
@tim serbo: That’s a very very very low bar you are setting there, sir.
Davis X. Machina
You may Voldemort us to your hearts’ content.
Those of us who suffered through the decades of unremitting Patriots suckage, back to the days of Babe Parilli, Mike Tailiafero, and Joe Kapp, on the frozen seats of Nickerson Field, or Harvard Stadium, or Alumni Stadium, or Schaefer Stadium, ending with the 1-15 1990 season, and Victor Kiam, just don’t care.
What goes around, comes around. It came around. Deal with it.
stuckinred
@asiangrrlMN: Cuz the princess has her wedding ring pillows in it. I helped her set up (and pulled tech support for a young lady who had not a clue what a multimedia wonderland her mac was) and her buddies are helping her tear down.
asiangrrlMN
I am making this post so my web address is correct. Please ignore.
@stuckinred: Ah. That makes sense. Yeah, supporting your honey is a good thing.
Comrade PhysioProf
Did they bench Welker for the “feet”, “foot”, “toe” thing?
stuckinred
@Davis X. Machina: What stadium was it that the moron fell off the wire and got the Pats blacklisted by MNF?
The Dangerman
@tim serbo:
Thus proving the inverse relationship between quality of career and quality of being an announcer…
…and, inadvertently, the relationship between quantity of concussions and quality of being an announcer.
morzer
@Bruce (formerly Steve S.):
Surely Belichick is Ferengi? His behavior with Randy Moss certainly went through the Five Stages of Acquisition: infatuation, justification, appropriation, obsession, and resale.
stuckinred
@Comrade PhysioProf: For violating Bill’s policy so, yea. It was bullshit, he just didn’t “start”!
tim serbo
@asiangrrlMN: you go to the playoffs with the announcers you have…
@Davis X. Machina: and Fenway. i saw them play the chiefs there in ’68, a year after i’d moved with my family from k.c. to boston. chiefs won, and i ran around on the field with my friends afterwards. god, i am so fucking old.
stuckinred
@The Dangerman: and baing a lousy typer
BGinCHI
@me: Yikes. Now he can only wreck the GOP.
stuckinred
@morzer: Don’t call me surely.
asiangrrlMN
@tim serbo: My question is, does anyone like any of the current crop of announcers? Is there someone hyperventilating over the chance to hear Greg Gumbel and Dan D. go on and on and on? I don’t think so. And, why do they have to talk all the fucking time? Kids, lawn, off.
ETA: Reince Priebus without the vowels = RNC PR BS. I am repeating this (I stole it) until it becomes a meme.
The Dangerman
@stuckinred:
When I was in High School, technology track students weren’t encouraged to take typing (except to scam on the secretarial track gals). Hunt and, um, pecker here.
Michael D.
I fucking hate the Pats. Although, I will grudgingly admit it’s because of two things:
1. I lost $50 when they played the Packers in 1997, and
2. Tom Brady’s hair.
BGinCHI
@asiangrrlMN: They all suck, but I’m not much of a NFL watcher, and almost never with the sound on.
A few weeks ago there was an announcer that just kept saying stupid shit. More than normal. It was Matt Millen!
Talk about failing and failing and still getting work.
BruceFromOhio
… and Jets D steps it up for another sack. Nicely done.
Comrade PhysioProf
I thought all the foot allusions in Welker’s comment were hilarious! It was very subtle, and only if you knew the backstory of the supposed Ryan foot “enthusiasm” would you notice anything amiss.
stuckinred
The NFL game with no announcers.
@asiangrrlMN: We are just moments away from the kickoff of today’s Jets-Dolphins game and a telecast that figures to be different. The fact that we try something different and dare to has been greeted with almost every kind of reaction, from good-natured humor to applause to some surprising anger.” — Bryant Gumbel’s first on-camera words on Dec. 20, 1980
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/otl/news/story?id=5906858
BruceFromOhio
@morzer: A DS-9 reference. Holy crap, never expected that here.
2liberal
@Davis X. Machina:
THIS. VERY WELL SAID from another long time Patriots fan.
morzer
@Michael D.:
Two excellent reasons: financial loss and metrosexual excess. Nothing to be ashamed of.
asiangrrlMN
@BGinCHI: I hear ya. Seriously. I would pay extra monies for a button that mutes the announcers while keeping the am b i ent sounds (don’t know if spam filter is still the same or not).
Davis X. Machina
@tim serbo: Hell, I saw a soccer game at Fenway the year before, and ran around on the field afterward.
We’re both so damn old….
stuckinred
They have this amazing invention on most TV called the MUTE button.
morzer
@BruceFromOhio:
*blushes*
I’m jest a simple country boy, Yer Honor. Didn’t know no better.
Michael D.
@morzer: That makes me feel better. Thank you. :-)
Mr Stagger Lee
@asiangrrlMN: Anything wrong with Al Michels and Chris Collinsworth? I like them the best.
stuckinred
You couldn’t hear the announcers with those goddamn vuvuzeaula’s
tim serbo
@asiangrrlMN: none that i can think of, no. i’m trying to think of announcers i’d like to hear, and all i can think of are baseball voices–ned martin, ernie harwell, vin scully. i don’t know, maybe Jon Miller and an interesting ex-player, like that guy who occasionally posts in deadspin, blocking on the name, will look it up later
BGinCHI
@asiangrrlMN: Universal sports shows cyclocross races, mostly later at night, with no announcers and with microphones all over the course. You can hear fans, racers, and lots of cowbells.
It’s great.
Bruuuuce
This weekend is Arisia, a sf convention in Boston. A FB friend who’s up there just posted some photos of folks in NE jerseys and Star Wars Clone Trooper helmets. Appropriate, says this NY (but mostly Giants) fan.
sloan
LT!
morzer
Tunchdown!
Where’s Svensker?
BruceFromOhio
@stuckinred: Then its too quiet. Crank up the tunesez!
ETA: Whoa, tectonic shift in the comments format. SPACE is teh frontier at the end.
The Dangerman
@efgoldman:
I thought so live, but couldn’t tell in replay.
morzer
@Bruuuuce:
*chuckles*
tim serbo
@Davis X. Machina: and the kids are positively swarming over the lawn…
stuckinred
@efgoldman: Hmm. October 18, 1976): Patriots/Jets
tim serbo
@BGinCHI: cyclocross is really well-suited for tv. fun live, too.
asiangrrlMN
@morzer: Two-timer! ::slaps you in the face with yet another satin glove::
@Mr Stagger Lee: I find them incredibly bland. Plus, I hate sports cliches, but I know I’m spitting in the wind there. They are probably the least obtrusive, but I just don’t want ANYONE talking all the time.
I actually don’t mind the second team at FOX (the ones who did today’s game) ‘coz they are fairly low-key (except for Goose. He can STFU).
And, whatdya know? We got a game.
ETA: Everybody calling him/herself old, what exactly is old to you?
BGinCHI
Site looks funny. Peculiar, not ha-ha.
morzer
@asiangrrlMN:
No, my temporary enthusiasm is strictly predicated on the Jets not being able to win it all with Sanchez, so it’s really a matter of two enemies destroying each other.
Also too, that velvet glove and you in a dominatrix pose.. well, what else should I live for in the Boston tundra?
BruceFromOhio
@BGinCHI: Your previous reality has been restored.
… sort of, looks like some further experimentation is being conducted on the fonts and spacing?
Morbo
I really hope this game is decided by more than three points. We don’t need Jets fans whining about that field goal..
Desert Rat
@Mr Stagger Lee:
Yeah. ESPN makes me almost want to fall back to my default position in any New York vs. Boston, New York vs. Chicago, or New York vs. Los Angeles matchup…cheering for injuries, and cheering for Pittsburgh vs. either one of them.
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: Yesh. And the Jets, they do be winning. So far. More important: the Pats are looking strangely vulnerable. And Brady right now is off.
asiangrrlMN
@morzer: I was referring to your blushing and scrapping the floor with your toe act. That’s for ME alone! Kiss mah boots!
@Yutsano: You’re back! Yeah, he actually looks rattled. Odd.
morzer
@Yutsano:
The question is whether the Patsies are bad enough to make Sanchez look like a real QB.
tim serbo
@Yutsano: yeah, jets’ D has my boy rattled. i got agita.
J.
Jets! Jets! Jets!
morzer
@asiangrrlMN:
There was no floor scraping! Hmph!
Is it me, or does Brady in that strange headgear look like John Cleese in the Holy Grail?
tim serbo
@asiangrrlMN: old is watching a baseball or football game and remembering that you saw some player’s father play when he was a rookie. that’s happened a couple of times.
morzer
And Belly Billochick blows a challenge! Yay!
asiangrrlMN
@J.: Are you actually wearing that thong? I have a Tunchie one!
@morzer: Yes, but you still did the blushing thing. Oh, shit. I said scrapping instead of scraping. It’s gonna bug me.
@tim serbo: But I thought Brady NEVER got rattled! Old: But Jordan’s son is now playing. Does that make me old?
Yutsano
@morzer: That could get you lynched in some states. Just sayin’.
@asiangrrlMN: I wonder if he just chose a really bad day to be off. Which is weird for him because usually he’s a laser. And the Jets are not exactly an unknown to him. Oddsfish.
frosty
@asiangrrlMN: Here’s a definition: Old is if you get laid off tomorrow, you will never have a job again.
asiangrrlMN
@Yutsano: Maybe. I have never seen him like this, though, so I can’t help but wonder if there’s something behind it.
@frosty: Oooooooh! I like this definition.
morzer
@Yutsano:
An absence of foot-scraping? Or comparing Cleese to Goldilocks?
tim serbo
@asiangrrlMN: what you’re feeling is the first chill breath of middle age on your back. you’re not old…yet.
brady CAN be rattled, as the giants proved in the super bowl. harass him up the middle often enough and he’ll make a panicky decision. i think he’s the best quarterback since montana, but he has weaknesses in his game.
morzer
@frosty:
Also, if you get laid tomorrow….
tim serbo
@frosty: thanks. now i know i won’t sleep tonight. brrrr…
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: Maybe Gisele said no to him. Or he got caught with another woman and still has that on the brain. It would be irresponsible not to speculate…
frosty
@asiangrrlMN: Yeah, it’s a simple definition. Applies to my wife and at least two co-workers.
morzer
Tonight really does seem to be a Human BradyTM edition.
stuckinred
@tim serbo: You got that right. Marion Barber comes to mind.
morzer
LT really does seem a bit radged off tonight, judging by his determination to hammer the Patsies all on his lonesome.
asiangrrlMN
@tim serbo: Damn. How you holding up? Well, stuckinred calls me young, and I am definitely not that.
@morzer: And are done for the month–you’re old.
@Yutsano: I was actually thinking something along that lines–something personal.
frosty, Oh, I’m sorry about your wife. That’s rough, man.
ETA: TOUCHDOWN! This is a GAME.
stuckinred
@Yutsano: It is the nature of this game. “It’s a thin line”. That being said you cannot have a big enough lead against him.
stuckinred
Old is when you give in to it. Not once fucking day sooner.
When you start looking back at your life and figuring out what your parents were doing at this or that age. When you wonder if the dogs you have now will be your last. It can creep in but you have to fight it.
morzer
Hot damn, I didn’t think Braylon Edwards had it in him.
Mark S.
Old is trying to fake a punt from your own 40 and going into the locker room down by 11.
tim serbo
@asiangrrlMN: i am trying to remember i’m happy to be alive to watch the pats ruin my day.
oh, no. TD, j-e-t-s.
i’m going to go pet my bunny. don’t read anything into that.
tim serbo
@Mark S.: shut up! shut up! cut his mic!
burnspbesq
Well, now. Isn’t this interesting.
Yutsano
@stuckinred: And apparently the Jets are taking your advice to heart. This seems rather curious. I wonder if the bye threw the Pats off their rhythm or something.
asiangrrlMN
Patrick Chung, NE Patriot–father is half Chinese-Jamaican. He’s a Duck, apparently. And, he’s a cutie.
morzer
I wonder whether Flying Elvis has left the building…
stuckinred
@stuckinred: How close was that to Ryan’s pick last night?
morzer
@asiangrrlMN:
Slaps you across the face with a velvet glove.. etc etc.
J.
@asiangrrlMN: No, not wearing my lucky Jets thong right now. Didn’t want to jinx them. But if my Jets win I’ll be wearing it to the gym tomorrow! (You have a Tunch thong? Really? Didn’t know there was such a thing. Isn’t that redundant? ;-)
Also at the risk of further jinxing things, GO JETS! (Can we end the game now, while the Jets are winning? :-)
KG
Are we really looking at the potential for two six seeds playing in the Super Bowl… Packers vs Jets, country mouse vs city mouse
stuckinred
@asiangrrlMN: My niece dated this guy at San Diego State before he played in the NFL, same background as Hines.
Jay C
NY 14-3 at the half….
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: You just made me think of Scott Fujita, who also has an interesting background like that. And he’s a DFH. And not bad to look at either.
Cat Lady
I hate the new formatting and I hate this game. Belichick better put all of their nuts in a vise at halftime, or Rexy won’t shut up until 2020 about this game.
morzer
@J.:
A lucky Jets thong?
Dear God, how dramatically my knowledge of the world is expanding thanks to this blog!
morzer
@Yutsano:
Slaps you across.. oh, never mind. As you were.
Pork away, pal! (Sorry, had to use that classic quote sometime…)
asiangrrlMN
@morzer: Oh, bay-beeeee! You wield the glove so authoritatively.
@J.: Ha! Here is the Tunch thong. I have yet to wear it for realz, though (I prefer going commando). I hear you about not wanting to jinx your team, though.
morzer
@Cat Lady:
You can always kneel at Rex’s .. er… feet.
stuckinred
@Yutsano: A site dedicated to Asian-American football players.
Rommie
Belichick is Mr. Wizard when it comes to halftime adjustments, so the Jets better stay on the gas.
Jenny
J*E*T*S
JETS!
JETS!
JETS!
asiangrrlMN
@Yutsano: Yup. I heart him, too. It’s also fascinating that he was adopted by a Japanese couple because Asians don’t tend to adopt out.
ETA: Just read his mother is white and father is third-generation Japanese American. That makes more sense to me.
And, here is Dat Nguyen. He used to play for the Cowboys. (He’s on the left). He’s a cutie, too.
@stuckinred: Thanks for that link!
ETA: Yes, he was definitely a bruiser.
morzer
@asiangrrlMN:
That’s one fine pussy you have there… *blush*
Svensker
I am enjoying this. Keep it up boys!
Andy K
Grand Rapids Ottawa Hills High School alum David Harris with the big pick of Brady? Yeah, that was nice, homey!
stuckinred
@asiangrrlMN: He could really hit. Vietnamese too.
stuckinred
@asiangrrlMN: Demps was the dude I mentioned.
morzer
@Svensker:
Evening, Svensker. It is rather enjoyable so far, isn’t it?
morzer
@asiangrrlMN:
TMI, definitely TMI.
I was just starting me beer an all…
BGinCHI
@Andy K: Finally, something good besides Founders Breakfast Stout comes out of GR.
morzer
Mmm.. damn good stuff, this Black Toad. And a whole half hour of Patsie-crushing to go…
asiangrrlMN
@stuckinred: I didn’t know about him. And, of course, how could I forget Hines Ward. Yum yum.
@Svensker: Good to see you, girl! This is rather enjoyable, isn’t it?
@morzer: Oh, sorry. OK. I always wear flannel unders and shapeless sweats. That help?
SFAW
jk-
I would like to apologize for my being a dickhead last week. I was going for the cheap laugh – sometimes it’s OK, but it definitely was NOT last week. So, I am sorry for my shitty-ass comment. Feel free to tell me to go fuck myself, I would deserve it.
Sorry for not doing this sooner, but I figured it was better left for a football thread.
Yutsano
@stuckinred: Thanks for that site. Really interesting to see a few AA/Korean mixes in there.
@asiangrrlMN: Fujita is not only adorable, he lets his skills speak on the field and his mind speak off it. It’s almost enough to make me feel bad for beating the Saints. Almost. :)
morzer
@asiangrrlMN:
MTMI, thank you very fricking much.
And you stole my “rather enjoyable” line, you wretch! Caitiff! Cudlip!
stuckinred
@Yutsano: The Ting twins at SC were good. Hung it up after their Jr year to get ready for med school.
asiangrrlMN
@Yutsano: Yeah. He’s a good man, so it seems. I like how in the story I read, they strove for false equivalence. “He’s not a complete do-gooder. He got a fine for hitting a guy low!” Snort.
@morzer: Bwaahahahhaha! So funny. P.S. I was kidding with the flannel unders.
@stuckinred: Of course. Med school.
And, how could I forget the Vikings own Kailee Wong?
BGinCHI, no, they need a little more right (I can make the joke–I’m Asian).
BGinCHI
@asiangrrlMN: Vikes definitely need more Wong.
stuckinred
@BGinCHI: If lovin you is wong. . .
morzer
@BGinCHI:
Getting more things Wong will not be in their Favre….
stuckinred
Hey Wang!
BuffBillsFan
I am torn on this one.
On one hand, I have a coworker who is a N-Y-E-T-S fan, and another who is a Steelers fan. If the NYETS win, the trash talk (friendly, but harsh) will be a blast for the next week.
On the other hand, listening to the Steelers fan whine about how the Pats can only win because they cheat (at least they cheat better than the other teams) would be tedious by Wednesday (and we have Monday off).
Actually, I am not torn…
GO JETS!!!
tim serbo
oh, to hell with it. i’m rolling a joint.
morzer
@stuckinred:
Wang Bang, thank you, Ma’am?
fucen tarmal
does maury povich wang chung?
BGinCHI
@morzer:
“This just in from Minneapolis. Brett Favre has been caught texting pictures of his Asian teammate to a woman…..no, wait…..I’m getting a correction. More after these messages.”
morzer
@BGinCHI:
Brett was only doing a Belly Check…
fucen tarmal
@morzer: tavaris is another day, and in 2012, with a little luck….
BGinCHI
@morzer: rimshot
OK, even that sounds dirty in this context.
morzer
This is getting genuinely intriguing.. potential for a good old-fashioned brawl, I think.
tim serbo
@fucen tarmal: i see what you did there.
Morbo
Pats need to get the running game going. And no.
morzer
@BGinCHI:
Pressure off the edge, ya think?
burnspbesq
Jets defense is getting it done right now.
morzer
Anyone else wondering where DougJ might have got to?
burnspbesq
What the Jets need right now is a vintage Giants-under-Parcells drive. Burn up the rest of the quarter and score.
Jenny
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM
morzer
@burnspbesq:
Looks like someone’s been reading your comments….
BGinCHI
@morzer: Clutching his pearls under his bed.
burnspbesq
@morzer:
Except they didn’t get it. Jets radio crew questioning second-down play calls. Weatherford needs to get it out of bounds inside the 10.
ETA: blechh. Weatherford is le suck today.
BGinCHI
OK, I’m leaving the library for a bar to watch the 4th quarter.
Who’s with me?
tim serbo
@BGinCHI: let’s go DougJ, i’m dyin’ out here!
Jenny
@BGinCHI:
Library?
What grade are you in?
morzer
@BGinCHI:
*Raises his beer in salute*
BGinCHI
@Jenny: Working on a book project. We can’t all be layabouts.
BGinCHI
@morzer: Give me 15 minutes then right back at ya.
morzer
@BGinCHI:
Time to crack my second book.. I mean bottle.
tim serbo
and alge moves a step closer to redemption. that’s more like it.
what the…? oh, sweet. a trick play that actually worked.
fucen tarmal
ok, jets offense, prove you don’t suck.
mr. whipple
GO Pats!!!!
morzer
Alright, Jets, time to teach the Patsies some manners.
BruceFromOhio
Gutsy move on the 2-pt conversion. Lots of football left …
Mark S.
Now we have a ballgame!
BTW, couldn’t Belichick’s mom dress him a little more stylishly for these games?
arguingwithsignposts
FTFP!
Yutsano
@arguingwithsignposts: Meh. Not quite ready to compare them to the Evil Empire just yet. But the Pats look mighty vulnerable today. That could be huge down the road.
asiangrrlMN
Uh oh. More of a ballgame than I wish it to be.
@Mark S.: You rooting for the Pats as well?
freelancer
WoooHoooo!
morzer
Quite a Cotch.. I mean catch.
Hic!
BruceFromOhio
@Mark S.: When the windchill is 19, go for what’s warm. Although he does look a bit off-kilter in that silly balaclava (sp?)
tim serbo
@asiangrrlMN: told you this would be nasty.
tim serbo
shit. fuck. piss. both feet down.
morzer
Tunchdown! Hurrah!
Jenny
PITTSBURGH HERE WE COME!
J*E*T*S
JETS!
JETS!
JETS!
morzer
@BruceFromOhio:
Yup, balaclava it is, as in the battle.
Jenny
Now it’s on to Pitt and let’s win there!
The Dangerman
Did Brady spend too much time with his wife this week (not that I begrudge him there)? New England looking old and slow.
Mark S.
@asiangrrlMN:
I’m pretty much neutral. I thought the Pats were going to kill them, so it’s been a surprise for me.
As long as whoever wins defeats the dreaded Roethlissburgers (I’m tired of looking up how to spell the dumbfuck’s name).
tim serbo
@Jenny: game’s 60 minutes.
asiangrrlMN
@tim serbo: Oh yeah. It’s definitely nasty.
@Jenny: Shush shush shush. One step at a time.
@Mark S.: You could just say Ben. I think we would all know…day-um. Is this really the Patriots?
tim serbo
oh, this is absolutely excruciating
The Dangerman
@Mark S.:
SNL Jeopardy flashback here (“words that end in ‘lissburger”).
morzer
@Mark S.:
Just spell it the non-Pittsburgh way:
Worthlessbugger
BruceFromOhio
Is that a touch panic I see in the eyes of Herr Brady?
ETA: Lots of run plays for being down by 10 with 8 mins left. Interesting strategy.
morzer
Is the Jets D getting a bit tired?
Yutsano
@BruceFromOhio: Depends. He may be trying to force things to happen now, which tends to be a very bad thing in football.
BruceFromOhio
@morzer: Uh. No.
… and the Jets rush THREE. This is looking seriously tragic.
Jenny
Gang GREEN SWARMING
morzer
I’ve never seen Brady dancing around like this.
File under: pleasurable things.
morzer
@BruceFromOhio:
Reverse the luck strategy. It seems to have worked rather well.
The Dangerman
Wow, gotta kick the field goal there.
Edit: Is the wind blowing? 52 isn’t that far.
Jenny
THAT’S IT! THAT’S IT!
TURN OUT THE LIGHTS THE PARTY IS OVER BRADY!
Yutsano
If there is one thing I learned as a Seahack fan it is this: when your game is on the line, NEVER rely on Deion Branch.
@The Dangerman: Or lack of faith in your kicker on Bellechik’s part. Which is kind of a douchey thing to do.
morzer
@Jenny:
No, no. You have to proclaim that the Jets are doomed. Don’t turn the luck around again.
morzer
@Yutsano:
“Never go up against a Sicilian when death is on the line”?
2liberal
shitfuckpiss.
looks like the foot fetishes will move on to the next round.
The pats suffer from all the injuries on the DLINE and a bad coaching call from the Great Hooded NFL Satan
2liberal
shitfuckpiss.
looks like the foot fetishes will move on to the next round.
The pats suffer from all the injuries on the DLINE and a bad coaching call from the Great Hooded NFL Satan
Mark S.
@The Dangerman:
Yeah, I was wondering about that too.
morzer
Hmm.. a mini-brawl? No full-out battle?
Disappointing.
The Dangerman
@Yutsano:
I don’t know who’s kicking for them after AV left, but … on 4th and fucking 13? I know he’s supposed to be a coaching genius, but that’s kinda crazy.
Edit: Unless the wind is blowing or your kicker blows, but isn’t he the GM, too?
Yutsano
And the Jets choose to put the game on their defense. That’s a lot of faith, especially since Brady and Bellechik both have Satan-bound contracts.
@The Dangerman: Sometimes the easiest explanation is hubris. Either on Bellechik or Brady, either way the result is the same.
burnspbesq
Not a good time to go three-and-out.
All right, Weatherford, earn your damn money.
ETA: that wasn’t quite what I had in mind.
stuckinred
@The Dangerman: FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — The New England Patriots placed kicker Stephen Gostkowski on injured reserve with a thigh injury on Wednesday morning, ending his season. Kicking duties will now fall to newly signed Shayne Graham.
Mark S.
Good return. Pats not out of this.
2liberal
@The Dangerman:
GOSTOWSKI (sp) was the kicker and an all pro with great leg strength however he is IR’d and they are making do with shayne ex-bengal who is not showing good depth on his kickoffs.
The Dangerman
@2liberal:
This I did not know; shitty luck on timing of injury.
freelancer
@burnspbesq:
lmao
BruceFromOhio
This is the offense that lost to the Browns: DOINK! at the 2 mw
Mark S.
What the hell just happened?
The Dangerman
Yet another coaching mistake (rushing the FG team on when you HAVE to have the FG).
Strange decisions.
tim serbo
during this commercial timeout, we pats fans will enjoy a tasty snack of our own livers.
burnspbesq
Missed FG is no play because of two-minute warning. Arggghhh.
BruceFromOhio
@tim serbo: You know what? All last week, all I thought was “flaming wreckage of Jets.” Could not imagine that the Jets could really come in and take it away.
Well, they didn’t, the Great Hairy One and his band of play-callers sort of like just, oh, i dunno, like GAVE it away instead. Did not see that one coming, and now the AFC championship is interesting again.
burnspbesq
Jets need the ball and one first down.
Jenny
BRING. IT. ON. STILLERS
freelancer
@burnspbesq:
At the twenty doesn’t hurt much either.
That’ll do, Jets. That’ll do.
Yutsano
Umm…what the hell just happened?
EDIT: And NOW it’s ovah.
The Dangerman
SO, let’s see if Ryan can jack it up (field goal block, returned for TD). Can’t kick it. Punt from the 20?
Edit: Nevermind.
Edit Part 2: Actually a bad play; 1st down ends the game. NE still has life….
Edit The Third: Not much life, mind you…
BruceFromOhio
Sleeping on the pigskin gets you a flag in the NFL.
mr. whipple
This game sucks stinky toes.
tim serbo
oh, poo. this monday in my midtown manhattan office building is going to be even worse than usual.
congratulations, jets and their fans, he said through gritted teeth. you won fair and square.
morzer
Patsies are dead in the water here. Some strange coaching in the 4th quarter, for sure.
burnspbesq
The best sound in sports: a surly home crowd filing out after an unexpected loss.
J. Michael Neal
Would Belichick have had one of his players assassinated for picking up the excessive celebration penalty after the game was effectively over? Or just kneecapped?
BruceFromOhio
@tim serbo: I’ll trade you all of the Jets fans in your office for all of the Steelers fans in mine.
asiangrrlMN
Holy crap. WTF? Wow. Just…wow. Game over? Game almost over.
So PERHAPS Brady is not the MVP of the NFL? It would be irresponsible not to speculate.
2liberal
a sad end to strong but flawed Patriots season. I can’t decide who i hate more, the Jets or the Steelers. and they both go on. The patriots have some good draft picks coming up – NEXT YEAR FOR SURE !!
RinaX
Manning and Brady one and done in the playoffs. I never imagined such a delightful scenario could come to pass!
Mr Stagger Lee
Oh god, another week of Mike and Mike bob-knobing the Jets. (their opponent will be the Steelers, but will you know that from Greenberg, and will at least give them some time to talk about it?) If you listen to ESPN or watch it, The NFC Championship is the battle in the Norris division rivals the Bears and the Packers.(just in case they don’t talk about it)
tim serbo
@BruceFromOhio: word. serious choke job, from belichick to brady on down. they got outcoached and outplayed.
/pensively removes troy brown jersey, picks up guitar and returns to the unfinished arrangement of “ship of fools,” which seems a good song to play these days./
arguingwithsignposts
Yes! Yes! Yes! FYFP! Jets-Steelers will be interesting. I am just loving the bellichek/brady tears for the moment.
tim serbo
@BruceFromOhio: oh, dear. my condolences.
morzer
Bets on DougJ’s new handle?
burnspbesq
An awful lot of unforced drops by Pats receivers today.
asiangrrlMN
@tim serbo: Not over yet!
The Dangerman
I’d laugh if the Jets fucked up the onsides….
BruceFromOhio
@morzer: I was fond of Arkon DougJ. That was fun for a while.
@tim serbo: Thanks, its an annual rite in the AFC North.
J. Michael Neal
@Mr Stagger Lee: Oh, how they bore us in the Norris!
Except that would be this year’s NFC West: every team finished under .500.
cbear
Soooo, coaching “genuis” Bill Belichek decides, down by 10 points, it’s a good idea to take 7+ minutes off the clock in a leisurely 4th quarter drive.
Stupid mofo.
Nicole
What’s up with the gymnastics, 17?
burnspbesq
9.5 to Braylon Edwards for the back layout. Would have been 9.7 if he had stuck the landing.
arguingwithsignposts
where are your Patriots now? ahahahaha!
morzer
And did those feet
Of Ancient Ryan
Walk on New England’s
Mountains green…..
burnspbesq
Well, now. Where are all of the folks who so confidently predicted a Pats blowout?
The Dangerman
And, even though the first onsides almost worked, I think you have to go something different on the 2nd one.
Strange calls to me.
I don’t know if I can root for any of the remaining 4 teams. Siggggh; well, basketball is in season.
asiangrrlMN
@Nicole: They junked the 10 system. Accordingly, my interest in it fell. There is no perfect score any more.
@burnspbesq: No longer. It would be a 15.75 in the new scoring.
Steelers-Jets? So strange.
Svensker
Suck Rexy’s toes!
fucen tarmal
i wonder if rex ryan will talk shit on the steelers this week, or will he pussyfoot around the media?
morzer
@asiangrrlMN:
We are all Steelers fans now…
Damn, that feels so disgusting.
tim serbo
@asiangrrlMN: not.
it’s been a little slice of heaven, watching the game with you all. time for a heart-healthy dinner of crow and worms, followed by an early bed, so i’ll have more time to weep piteously into my pillow. good night, sleep tight, don’t let the bedbugs bite.
morzer
@Svensker:
Was it good for you too?
robertdsc-PowerBook
I feel like a Colts fan. We had a Peyton-style ending to a good season. Fuckup.
Mark S.
WTF is Shannon Sharpe wearing?
burnspbesq
@morzer:
And was the HOLY LAMB OF REX
On Fox’bro’s pleasant pastures seen
burnspbesq
@tim serbo:
Red wine with crow, not white.
asiangrrlMN
@tim serbo: Oh, I feel bad for you (even though I was rooting for the Jets). Good night!
@morzer: Admit it. You like getting dirty. Steelers/Packers would be wonderful.
@JCT: Now you can eat it in celebration instead! After you post pics, of course.
JCT
YES — here I spent all afternoon making my son’s (the rabid Jets fan) favorite dinner and dessert to try to make him feel better after the predicted Jets shellacking.
Bye- Bye Belichick and Brady!
morzer
@asiangrrlMN:
Indeed. And I would be fanatically pro-Pack.
So far my devilish strategy is working out perfectly. The Patsies fall, and now the cudlip Jets can be put to the blade. They have served their purpose.
2liberal
@burnspbesq:
where were you after the Jets lost the previous game?
tim serbo
@burnspbesq: of course. purely for the resveratrol content, naturally.
congratulations. (butthole)
Cacti
My favorite game of the playoffs. Gillette playoff mystique dead and buried, Brady outperformed by Sanchez, Bill “super double geniusburger” Belichick’s staff out-schemed by Rex Ryan’s, and…mouthy Pats fans who’d already crowned themselves champions left to sputter.
Gotta love Deion Branch talking shit to the Jets sideline when his team’s down 10 in the 4th quarter.
asiangrrlMN
@morzer: Oh my god. You’re cracking me up. I don’t know for whom I would root–Stillers or Pack. I’ll wait to see if we get there first.
Oh, and J-with-the-Jets-thong from upthread? Have at it!
morzer
@burnspbesq:
Bring me my bow
Of Revis gold
Bring me my Mangold of desire
Bring me my spear
Oh clouds unfold
Bring me my Cotchery of fire….
SFAW
So, guys, did they have an AFC football game this afternoon? What did I miss?
morzer
@SFAW:
Mostly Asiangrrl’s new lucky thong being displayed. Other than that, nothing much. Didn’t even watch a down myself.
tim serbo
@asiangrrlMN: thanks. i’ll really feel sad when there’s something to really feel sad about. the apartment is warm, the bunny, after two and a half years, has finally learned to hop up on my lap for pets, and i’m here to enjoy it all. pats win would have been nice, but neither necessary nor sufficient. grosses bises a tout le monde!
SFAW
burnspbesq & Svensker –
Congrats to the two other Jets fans on the FSM-forsaken blog.
I didn’t think they’d win, I’m ashamed to say. But this was pretty nice.
Cacti
Oh, and go Jets, beat Rapistberger.
burnspbesq
@2liberal:
I believe I have been consistent all along in saying that 45-3 was an outlier. Stuff happens. New England is a very good team. New York is a very good team.
morzer
Hey hey DougJ
How many yards did ya gain today?
SFAW
asiangrrlMN –
What’s up with the thong? I thought that was J’s. You got one too?
Han hau!
burnspbesq
Sanchez giving all the credit to his receivers.
Jenny
The NFC looks weak, so the AFC championship game will be the real Super Bowl.
Cacti
@Jenny:
Yup, just like last year when Peyton Manning was going to thump the Saints and take his place as the greatest QB of all time.
Cacti
As much fun as it is to dance on the Pats proverbial graves…
This probably was Brady’s best year as a QB given the quality of his supporting cast on both sides of the ball.
asiangrrlMN
@tim serbo: That’s a great attitude. Bis bis right back atcha.
@SFAW: I have Tunchie thong, not Jets thong. OBEY!
Mark S.
@Cacti:
Or when the Greatest Team in History was going to cap it all off by stomping the Giants.
SFAW
Whatever you want, toots. Although it’s a bit of a haul for me to Minnesota.
SFAW
I don’t remember the Peyton playing the Giants in the SB – when was that?
vtr
As a longtime Patriots fan, let me say “Congratulations Jets.” I want you to know that when the Jets play the Packers in the SuperBowl, I’ll rooting for a small meteorite.
Joe Bauers
Is there anything better in life than seeing the Pats lose their first playoff game in a year when they thought they were going to win it all? Verily I say unto thee, there is not.
Unless it would be for Pittsburgh to also lose the following week. I don’t think I could handle that much happiness.
john
As a longtime Steeler fan, I should have been rooting for the Jets. But I wasn’t because they are even more evil than the Pats, despite having won nothing yet. I hope the nation can tone down the hateful rhetoric and unite behind the black and gold next weekend.
Svensker
@morzer:
Fantastic.
We had a buncha Jets fans over, so my online time was limited. But appreciate all the support…heh.
I just LOVE it when Tom Brady gets that sick look on his face. Love it.
Breezeblock
Buh Bye Cheatriots!
J E T S
JEtS JETS JETS!!!!!!!
Eric Shaw
@vtr: Don’t worry, you can keep the meteorite, seeing as it will be Steelers and Bears.
Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen
Pats despising significant other peeked over my shoulder, saw this post title, laughed real loud.
SFAW
What, is there going to be a game to determine third place?
Eric Shaw
@SFAW: That’ll be played on the golf course between the packers and the jets.
SFAW
Keep telling yourself that. It worked so well for the Pats’ fans, too.
On the plus side, Troy Oompa-Loompa will have more time for shampoo commercials.
IsItMe?
John, I love your title for this post. I had to go an event, and was elated to find out the Jets took down the Voldemorts. I was always just indifferent toward the Voldemorts until it was revealed a few years back that they’d blatantly cheated via videotapping opponents for their call signals. This loss couldn’t happen to a “better” team ;-). Go Jets!!!
Cynicor
Sarah Palin is a true Patriot. She’s known for her weak, offensive lines.
Chinn Romney
The future looks very bright for the NE Patriots. Until then I guess I have to root for Pittsburgh. I hope the Jets help them along, because the Steelers *always* require the opponent to make a bone-headed play or two along the way. And perhaps Cromartie can tell Big Ben how to seal the deal with Chicks, since Ben’s heavy handed approach is a bit lacking.
SFAW
Not to mention that, earlier in the season, they (apparently) pulled the same block/trip-a-defender-on-a-punt stunt that got Alosi suspended.
Alosi SHOULD have been suspended, we’ll see if anything happens to the Pats (assuming the news report I saw is true, of course).
4jkb4ia
@Cat Lady:
This is a bad thing?
4jkb4ia
I could not write this last night because I learned at EW’s that Sara had passed away. However all descriptions and accounts of this game fill me with complete manic glee.
(Do not turn to John’s gift-offering! I have not taken a single donkey of theirs, nor have I wronged even one of them.)